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Graduate Degree Programme (Master’s) in Theatre and Performing Arts
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The graduate degree programme in Theatre and the Performing Arts is the first graduate degree in Italy to include the performing arts programmatically starting with its very name., as well as presenting a collection of features that make it unique in the national and international scene. The UniversitĂ Iuav invests in the potential of theatre and the performing arts to explore and bring to the stage a collective reflection on the complexity of the contemporary human and social condition.
These study disciplines ,when addressed in relation to architecture, urban sciences, design, fashion and the visual arts, can open new spaces for research that redesign complex scenarios in a natural interaction with cultural codes. . This is why, if we were to find a book title for the programme, it would be HERE AND NOW. The title refers to the Present, what is happening now, on and off of the scenes, the hic et nunc of a degree programme that looks at the past and present (which is already future), inside and outside, all at the same time. A programme that is like a door that opens on the meaning and role of design and action in their multiple articulations and potentials.
HERE The new graduate programme recognizes the capacity of the performing arts and theatre for prefiguration and imagination, and places an emphasis on the exchange and interaction between the academic world and the art, theatre and performing arts system, both nationally and internationally, drawing a clear distinction with regard to the formulas adopted by the graduate degree programmes offered by the DAMS music and performing arts curricula, or those proposed by the fine arts academies.
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THE COURSES Courses of the Graduate Degree Programme in Theatre and Performing Arts of UniversitĂ Iuav di Venezia develop different lines of research, covering areas ranging from historical-critical to that of artistic practices and techniques. Workshops and studio classes, conceived to strengthen the design orientation of the academic curriculum, explore curating, research and general and artistic direction, bringing the students into close contact with the most renowned professionals in the various sectors of the performing arts.
One of the educational missions of the UniversitĂ Iuav is to create virtuous circuits between education and the job market, seeking to establish a concrete foundation for the important eco-system which increasingly requires educational programmes that adequately prepare students to take become officials of national theatres, opera theatres, public and private festivals.
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ARCHITECTURE AND PERFORMANCE SPACES CINEMA, VIDEO, PERFORMANCE, AND INTERMEDIAL STAGE CHOREOGRAPHY, PERFORMANCE, AND INTERMEDIAL STAGE DRAWING, ANIMATION, AND DIGITAL THEATRE ANCIENT DRAMA AND ORIGINS OF THE THEATRE AESTHETICS OF THE CONTEMPORARY SCENE MISE-EN-SCÈNE WORKSHOP: BODY, SPACE, AND DIGITAL INTERACTION (1° year) MISE-EN-SCÈNE WORKSHOP: IMAGE AND PRESENCE (1° year) MISE-EN-SCÈNE WORKSHOP: WORD AND VOICE (2° year) INTENSIVE MISE-EN-SCÈNE WORKSHOP (2° year) CULTURAL HERITAGE LEGISLATION THEATRICAL LITERATURE CURATORSHIP WORKSHOP 1 CURATORSHIP WORKSHOP 2 CINEMATOGRAPHY WORKSHOP SET-DESIGN WORKSHOP LIVE-PERFORMANCE VIDEO WORKSHOP LIVE-PERFORMANCE DOCUMENTATION AND ARCHIVING WORKSHOP CHOREOGRAPHIC COMPOSITION WORKSHOP
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THE IMPORTANCE OF WORKSHOP EXPERIENCE
One of the PECULIARITIES OF THIS GRADUATE PROGRAMME IS THAT IT ESTABLISHES THE STUDIO AS A COMPLEX EDUCATIONAL FORMAT, A SPACE IN WHICH TO EXPERIMENT THE CLOSE TIES BETWEEN STAGE PRACTICES, THEORETICAL THINKING AND TECHNICAL SKILLS. Workshops foresee a first part dedicated to study activity, a second one dedicated to action and interaction, and a third one that develops the study through laboratorial activities that connect with the workshop’s chosen theme, triggering new ways of access to knowledge. The professors holding the workshops – who often are internationally renowned artists - are carefully selected by the University heads and directors in order to help students grasp the complexity, languages, and methods of research in contemporary live-performance practices, so that they may be able to follow today’s and tomorrow’s developments and shifts in the performing arts. All this while maintaining a close connection with current events, with what is currently happening on national and international scenes. This innovative form of workshop aims to accompany students in the understanding of the different languages that revolve around live performance.
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The frame of reference for the development of this degree programme is the “culture of the design project�. Historicaltheoretical perspectives, as well as artistic and technicalprofessionalising ones, revolve around this mind-set, clearly setting it in an international context. At the centre of this mind-set, the University’s educational offer aims at providing theoretical-practical preparation based on four areas of study:
a) Historical-critical: preparation in this area aims at training researchers, as well as critics and scholars in the field of performing arts, so that they may better access the national and international market and work in universities, academies of fine arts, and research centres. This will allow students and graduates to operate in the publishing sector of the study field, in academic and critical research, as well as in museums and archives.
b) Curatorship, management, and communication: This aspect of the study field is set to form emerging professional figures with an international profile, able to design and manage events in performing arts for companies, theatrical institutions, and individual artists. Currently, there are no academic institutions aimed at the specific training of such professional figures: superintendents or theatre directors (national theatres, foundations or lyrical institutions, festivals) but also directors of galleries or museums where performing events are hosted. In fact, the people who usually hold these positions come from a background in economy and finance; or they are people that have spent most of their lives in the theatre world and developed managerial skills directly on-site. Therefore, this programme aims to systemise the training of professionals who, through historical-critical preparation, are able to manage a public institution, understanding how it works and the legislation that regulates it.
c) Artistic, creative, and project-oriented: putting students in direct contact with artists who work at international levels is an important part of the educational process, because proposing to train students directly as artists is a contradiction since artists cannot ‘be formed’. Rather, and more effectively, the programme provides students with creative models and processes that are applicable in different fields. This offers them practical experience of the creation of a show or event (direction, set design, dramaturgy, translation and adaptation of texts), from first ideation to actual realisation: finding resources, technical issues, and all necessary collaborations for final production. It is a matter of giving students the opportunity to meet as many artists as possible, with whom to form exchanges and collaborations that go beyond the academic world, extending to the professional one. d) Technical: this specific aspect concerns the acquisition of the basics of software and devices for the design of environments and sets, for the realisation of set photography and documentaries on the performing arts, as well as for archiving and the documentation and dissemination of stage design per se.
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This articulated programme combines and presents the varied educational offer of which UniversitĂ Iuav di Venezia is unique expression. It is the result of a renewed vision of the academic and educational format: it centres on the student, offering high profile cultural and professional training, in which Humanities meet technical-scientific aspects. To design means understanding the necessity of keeping an open mind and perspective, able to stay one step ahead. Designing means defining a vision of the world. In this sense, the programme develops a method of research and training capable of overcoming the sectorial vision in which subjects and disciplines are usually framed in, thus recovering a complex and multifaceted approach to general knowledge.
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The different disciplinary backgrounds of the teaching staff of this programme make all this possible. However, the potential of the programme is also supported by the extensive collaborations and research projects set to be carried out with colleagues from foreign universities. This allows students to keep up with the research and creative activities in the international field, with the possibility of participating in an extended scientific community, so as to ‘export’ and bring their educational and training experience where a new and conscious practice of European citizenship is being created: one that is based on culture and the arts.
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Since 2016, Università Iuav di Venezia has hosted a research project on the history of Italian theatre practices of the ‘60s and ‘70s: INCOMMON In praise of community: shared creativity in arts and politics in Italy (19591979). The project is supported and funded by the European Research Council (ERC Starting Grant 2015). It is the first project related to theatre practices that has won this important award in Europe. It is developed by a team of researchers who also are an active part of the teaching staff of the Graduate Degree Programme in Theatre and Performing Arts. INCOMMON’s research is also organised through important encounters and exchanges, directly involving the students of the programme and putting them at the centre of events in which historical, philosophical, and artistic debates take place. Furthermore, professors are actively involved in the design and development of innovative forms that support social experimentation and research. Regione Veneto and the European Social Fund have supported theatrical research at Università Iuav by allocating funds to finance two research grants in Theatre and Performing Arts (for the 2017/2018 academic year).
Illustrations and images are from the 2017 Fanny & Alexander and the 2018 Rimini Protokoll workshops.
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Head of programme: Annalisa Sacchi / asacchi@iuav.it Mario Lupano / mlupano@iuav.it Organisation: Roberta Bernasconi / rbernasconi@iuav.it Communication: Virginia Sommadossi / vsommadossi@iuav.it Teaching staff: Elisa Bizzotto, Malvina Borgherini, Silvia Bottiroli, Monica Centanni, Massimiliano Ciammaichella, Luca Del Pia, Piersandra Di Matteo, Oberdan Forlenza, Stefan Kaegi, Helgard Kim Haug, Chiara Lagani, Mario Lupano, Carmelo Marabello, Enrico Pitozzi, Maximiliano Romero, Annalisa Sacchi, Daniel Wetzel, Istvan Zimmermann Collaborators: Roberta Da Soller, Laura Pante, Rosaria Ruffini
A NEW STUDY PROGRAMME, DEDICATED TO THEATRE,FINDS A RADICAL RENOVATION AT UNIVERSITÀ IUAV DI VENEZIA, BEGINNING FROM ITS VERY NAME.